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A43562
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Three sermons preached at the Collegiate Church in Manchester by Richard Heyricke.
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Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.
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1641
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Wing H1751; ESTC R27425
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thereabouts had beene destroyed who can conceive the sad and bloudy consequences of it The sword would not onely have passed through Westminster London and the Regions about but all the Country and Kingdome should have felt the fury of it yea Children unborne should have beene smothered with the smoake of it When the Sicilians Massacred the French their fury was so great that they did not only not leave one French man among them but ript up all their owne women that were with child by the French that not one droppe of French bloud might remaine among them When that great dissention in Italy and those factious names of Gibilines and Guelphs came up one adhering to the Emperor the other to the Pope When the Gibilines called in a third to assist them promissing their goods they having obteyned the victory fell a Rifling of both without distinction being charged with breach of promise they replyed your selves are Gibilines and shall be safe but your goods are Guelphs I make no question but the English Papists that now complaine of Salomons yoake if ever the French Spanish or Italian should come victoriously among us which God forbid they would find Rehoboams burden all their goods should be English if not they themselves Arch-Bishop Cranmer was not hee burnt though hee recanted My sword saith the Duke of Parma knowes no difference In the troublesome Reigne of King Iohn when the traitorous and rebellious Nobles called in the French and joyned with them against their King You may remember what Vicount Melun troubled in Conscience upon his death bed told the Lords affirming it upon his salvation that Lewes and sixteene Lords had taken an oath that if ever the Crown were set on his head hee would condemne to perpetuall exile and utterly extirpate all their kinred that adhered to him as Traitors to their owne Soveraigne when the proud Spaniards exercised those Tyrannies in the Netherlands they first pretended the maintenance of the Romish Religion yet they spared not to deprive very many Catholikes and Ecclesiasticall persons of their Liberties and priviledges and the chiefest that was executed of the Nobility was that valiant Count Egmund that most zealously was effected to their Religion yet most cruelly tormented examples are infinite but I hasten to the third aggravation Thirdly Simeon and Levi punisht them above their offence nothing is more ordinary in the writings of the Iesuites then this that Hereticks can never bee enough punished One complaines of that bloudy duke of Alva that hee made the Netherlands worse by shewing too much mercy from Spanish mercy Lord deliver us Arist. saith There ought to be a Geometricall proportion betwixt the punishment and the offence lesser offences are not to bee punished with the great censures of the Law Doctor Burges preaching before King Iames relates a story of Pollio's Wife that commanded her Butler to be hanged for breaking of a Glasse The Emperor passing by stayed the execution and said the sight of the Gallowes was enough for such an offence and to prevent the like commanded all glasses to be broken It's Tyranny bloudy cruelty to punish every sinwith death When men exercise great censures for small offences It is as one said to kill a fly upon a mans forehead with a great Beetle The Papists will allow veniall sinnes against God but all are mortall against their Pope There 's no command of the morall Law but they can dispense with it but none of their Ceremoniall Law disobedience to Parents Murders Treasons Treachery Adultery Incest Theft Sacriledge Lying Perjury are all pardoned but nothing against him Let God say they looke to the breach of his owne Law wee will looke to ours Austin put to death 1200. Monks of Bangor because they differed something from him in the Liturgie and service It s a signe of a trifling Age when the fathers of the Church trouble the peace of the Church for trifles when they excommunicate one another for Tything Mint and Comin As the Easterne and Westerne Churches about the keeping of Easter What great offence did Alexander Bishop of Ierusalem and the Bishop of Cesarea commit when they layd their hands upon Origen so highly to offend the Bishop of Alexandria it argues usually bloudy times when easie offences are punisht with death Pope Innocentius in words thundered out against Grosted that good Bishop of Lincolne because he denyed to preferre an Italian Boy commended to him by his Holinesse hee swore he would hurle him to such confusion as to make him a fable a gazing stock and a wonder to the world But hee thundered indeed that casheered one of his Officers because he kept not the legge of a Peacocke blasphemously saying God banisht Adam out of Paradise for an Apple and may not I his Vicar for a Peacocks legge To excommunicate Kings and Princes to interdict kingdomes to raise motions and commotions to send out Crosado's against Christians as against Turkes because in every thing they conforme not to the Pope what greater injustice tyranny and oppression To raise one kingdome against another to give one to another what greater tyranny and cruelty What had our King and State deserved of the Gunpowder-Traitors that they should reward it with so great cruelty They were not put to death as wee were in Queene Maries dayes our State had not erected an Inquisition like that of Spaine It hath beene the constant attestation of our Princes and States that not one Papist hath suffered in the cause of Religion They enjoyed their possessions their liberties their titles of honour they were admitted neare to the Kings person had the protection of our Lawes no violence was offered to them English Papists saith one are more pontificiall then the Spanish or French That is more false treacherous traitorous bloudy and cruell Soe that when the Romish Religion was in place among us there were more invasions and Rebellions then ever since that it became proverbiall of our King and kingdome that our King was the King of devils Now since the puritie of the Gospell among us all Rebellions and Commotions have been of the Popish faction I am sure the conspirators of this day were bloudy Papists One said to Q. Elizabeth commending Seneca's booke of Clemencie and saying it had done her much good yea saith hee but it hath done your subjects much hurt You know not what Powder-Treason may bee hatching in Rome nor what Invincible Armado preparing in Spaine nor what Incarnate Devill and desperately resolved Iesuite with murder in his heart may be lurking in some secret corner of the kingdome I know while the Devill is in hell and the Pope in Rome and the King of Spaine aspiring to bee universall King as the Pope universall Bishop while the Iesuites are suffered in England and the English are reformed there wil not want Plots to confound us all O they are active spirits firy Gunpowder Traitors A French Papist made this Apostrophe to Henry the fourth King of France